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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






2. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






3. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






4. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






5. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






6. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






7. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






8. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






9. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






10. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






11. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






12. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






13. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






14. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






15. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






16. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






17. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






18. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






19. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






20. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






21. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






22. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






23. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






24. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






25. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






26. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






27. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






28. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






29. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






30. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






31. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






32. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






33. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






34. Processes that organize and manage the project team






35. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






36. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






37. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






38. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






39. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






40. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






41. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






42. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






43. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






44. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






45. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






46. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






47. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






48. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






49. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






50. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service